In every class, there is that one guy who takes over and derails the class into what he wants instead of what the class is trying to focus on. And that one guy is always always always a guy, women don't do that very often.
Ruth (a genius brainiac math major) and I were talking about that one guy the other night. The current guy driving her to distraction has been nicknamed "Hairlip" not because he has one but because she says "If you saw him, you'd understand". He likes to interrupt when other people ask questions in order to change the focus to him.
I don't have a nickname for the guy that's bugging me, but the way he derails my physical anthropology class every fucking time has started to get to me. The first night of class he made a comment about how "we all can agree that there are too many women having babies that they can't raise". Uhm - no we can't all agree on that.
As class has progressed, it's become really fucking obvious that this is a Nice GuyTM who is trying to find biological justification for why women won't fuck him. He derailed the class the other night to talk about how we are biologically programed to choose a mate and that studies have shown that women all over the world want men who are 3 to 5 years older than them and financially secure and that men want youth and beauty. The professor (god love him) tried to tell him that it might be culturally based and not biological, but the guy just kept screaming about studies in babies. I interrupted his rant. "All of those attributes are culturally determined, name one country in that study where women have greater economic power than men- name one. You can't and until women have economic power of course they are going to choose men with money over men with looks". He continued screaming about babies for a minute. Then we took a break (It's a 3 hour class).
Outside, a young woman, maybe 21 thanked me for interrupting the guy. Ruth, who interrupted Hairlip after another woman asked a question that Hairlip derailed, also got a thank you. Ruth and I both agreed that there was a sense of "fuck yeah" after finally getting the assholes to shut up for a second.
I wonder how long I can hold out until I just scream out in class that "the reason you're not getting laid is cause you're an asshole, not because of biology!" We'll see how it goes.
